I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    Honestly just don’t bother with mastodon.

    I deleted Twitter years ago and don’t miss it at all.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 years ago

    I deactivated my 15 year old Twitter account this weekend.

    Then I deleted all my Reddit posts.

    Then I created a new email account and I’m migrating off of Google.

    I guess I should go check out Nebula or something next, and try out PeerTube.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•2 years ago

      Been here for a couple weeks, I’ve enjoyed it so far. Some niche communities are missing but I think Lemmy is a good time and I love the vision

    • riverEnglish
      17•2 years ago

      16 years here. Hard but that’s life.

      • ijeffEnglish
        16•2 years ago

        16 years too. We’ve been through these transitions before with Digg!

        • Flying SquidEnglish
          8•2 years ago

          13 for me, and a few days ago they banned me without even telling me why. I asked and I got no response. Fuck them, I was getting done with them anyway and when I found out that blind mods couldn’t moderate their own subreddit, I’m glad I didn’t even attempt to appeal.

  • @[email protected]English
    25•2 years ago

    Same.

    I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn’t be dealing with the increasing enshittification.

    I’ve had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it’s definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend’s bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn’t going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.

    So I’m just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago

    I deleted my Reddit account when they accused me of “Promoting violence” for some dark humor.

    Some bullshit censorship going on there.

  • VelvetVesselEnglish
    9•2 years ago

    Recently signed up for both Lemmy and Mastodon and it’s a breath of fresh air after dealing with BS on Twitter and Reddit over the past few years. Welcome!

  • Void_ReaderEnglish
    21•2 years ago

    Same; I’ve been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can’t take it anymore. It’s all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can’t shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn’t quite do it just yet.

    The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

    BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Oh yes I’ve still not been able to get out of YouTube. :(

      Got out of pretty much every other social media platform!

      • Void_ReaderEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        Thanks very much for recommending this! Tried it and am quite happy. Also just tried NewPipe on my phone and it works really well. Bye bye YouTube

  • estyEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    welcome! enjoy your time on the fediverse! personally i found fedi back in '19 but the latest stuff with reddit re-sparked my interest and got me into using lemmy

  • MorethanevilEnglish
    38•2 years ago

    Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

    I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

  • @[email protected]English
    37•2 years ago

    It’s strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn’t noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.